Is Having Cyber Sex Cheating if You are Married? (This article has 10 comments)
Cybersex - having online sex talk where you describe in detail what you are doing to each other - has been around as long as the Internet itself. It used to be 'just' talk - text in chat rooms or talk programs. But with the advent of virtual worlds like Second Life, it's a lot more than 'just' talk. And even if it is just talk - if you are married, is having cyber sex the same as cheating on your wife or husband? We say "yes" - and you get to answer the question too, with our survey at the end!

Adult Friend Finder Slapped by FTC for Explicit Pop Ups (This article has 1 comment)
Adult FriendFinder has been roasted by the FTC for forcing explicit ads - in the form of graphic pop-ups for Adult Freind Finder, advertising the Adult Friendfinder network - on people who were not only not looking for Adultfriend Finder, but who weren't looking for an adult finder service at all - such as children. Adult Friend Finders has reached a settlement with the FTC, under which Adult FriendFinders - and Adult FriendFinder affiliates - must cease and desist from displaying explicit ads unless the user is actively seeking out that sort of content, or has...er..explicitly consented to see such content.

The Truth About All Those Roadside Singles Signs (This article has 2 comments)
Have you ever wondered about those roadside singles signs that are cropping up all over the place - signs by the side of the road that offer local dating in cities and towns around the country? You know the ones, they all tout some local-sounding singles group, with a website address which always ends in either "singles.com" or "dates.com", such as "citynamesingles.com" or "yourtownhere.com". Well, they're almost all affiliate plays - they want your money, and offer little in return.

Is Virtual Rape Crying Virtual Wolf? (This article has 12 comments)
I read an article this week about "virtual rape". Yes, really. That would be virtual sexual assault on your virtual online character or persona. This is all coming out now because, I kid you not, someone from Second Life reported a virtual rape to the police in Brussels. And they are investigating it. Oh for pete's sake, give me a break! How tenous a grasp on reality do these people have? And how the heck can there be "forced online sexual activity"? Isn't that nearly an oxymoron?

Towards a Nanny Internet (This article has 5 comments)
Network neutrality, laws requiring dating sites to perform background checks and ISPs to rat out their users, laws banning anonymous posting, and cyber bullying legislation. Is it all part of a move towards a nanny Internet?

Online Dating? Parents Would Rather See Their Daughter Date a Trekkie or Even Pick Someone Up in a Bar! (comments)
It used to be that the worst place a parent could think of for their daughter to meet a mate was the neighborhood bar. Or perhaps a sci-fi convention. Indeed, the last think that a parent wanted to imagine was their child picking someone up at a bar. But all that has changed with the advent of online dating.

MySpace Comments by MySpace Friends Out MySpace Player Who Was Feeding on the MySpace Girls of Colorado (This article has 6 comments)
When Jesse from Denver thought that he'd found a good thing in MySpace friends, being able to find all those beautiful MySpace girls right near him whom he could play, and trick into befriending, bedding, and boarding him, he hadn't counted on the fact that MySpace is a two-way street. It was the MySpace comments what done him in.

The Internet Patrol’s MySpace Profile: Testing the MySpace Danger (This article has 2 comments)
With all of the buzz continuing about MySpace, good and bad (lots of MySpace danger stories), we finally figured that we should test out our own MySpace profile.

States Consider Requiring Background Checks for Online Dating Sites (This article has 5 comments)
With the murder of Josie Phyllis Brown by MySpace date John Christopher Gaumer, and Lori Leonard by Internet date Shawn Doyle, laws requiring that online dating sites perform criminal background checks are starting to crop up around the country.

Match.com Responds to Match.com Lawsuit (This article has 14 comments)
As reported here last week, online dating giant Match.com was served with a lawsuit claiming that they engaged in fraudulent and deceptive business practices, and specifically alleging that they used paid shills to go out on dates with their customers, and to write ...

Online Personal Dating Services Use Fake Ads and Date Bait, Claims Match.com Lawsuit and Yahoo Personals Lawsuit (This article has 102 comments)
Online personal dating services pad their ad inventory with fake ads, and use employees as "date bait", contends both a Match.com law suit and a Yahoo Personals law suit.

Russian Dating Scam Hits Match.Com, Other Dating Sites (This article has 62 comments)
The Russian dating scam works like this: a Russian woman, or someone in Russia claiming to be a woman, contacts a man on one of the online dating sites, draws him into an online relationship, and then hits him up for money "for a plane ticket to come be with you."

Giving New Meaning to “Searching for a Soulmate” (comments)
According to a survey done by AdultMatchmaker.com (which begs the question, are there sites out there devoted to matchmaking for children?), as many a third or more of all online daters will do a Google search of their intended before going out on ...

Grand Theft Auto Worm Hagbard.A Offers Hot Water, Not Hot Coffee (This article has 1 comment)
Security experts are reporting that a new worm called Hagbard.A is posing as a pirated version of the popular and now scandal-plagued game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Riding the wave of publicity which Rockstar Game's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has received ...

Online Dating Goes to the Dogs - Literally (This article has 1 comment)
Ok, now this is just too cute for words. There are all kinds of online dating models (not models dating online, calm down fellas), including the online dating service which performs criminal background checks, the poorly named PlentyOffish.com (geez guys, yes, it ...

Future of Online Dating? DateLance.com (comments)
Lance Archibald appears to have everything. The thirty-one year old former collegiate basketballer has good looks, a great personality, a sense of humour, an MBA from Harvard, and a great job. What Lance Archibald doesn't have is a wife, and apparently ...

Online Dating Site’s Shrink David Hasselho..er..James Houran Talks About Profiling (comments)
Those wacky people at online dating site True.com are up to it again, talking all logical and sciency about online dating, when everyone knows that the Martian/Venusian aspect of dating requires an alchemist, not a psychologist. This time they have their Chief Psychologist, Dr. ...

“Hooking Up” - Television Show About Online Dating (comments)
There's something almost laterally recursive about a television show which is about online dating. That in itself seems kind of lame. But there it is, and apparently ABC decided it was a worthy topic, as they aired their "Hooking Up" ABC ...

Winner of “Most Poorly Named Online Dating Site” - Plentyoffish.com (This article has 86 comments)
Now, would you really want to go on a date with someone who advertised themselves as "Plenty Offish"? I mean, really, come on, being stand-offish is hardly something of which to be proud. What's next, "Snobs R' Us Singles"? But no, Plentyoffish.com ...

Singles Suffer in Online Dating War (News Release) (comments)
Obscure dating sites often offer more for singles, but they remain unknown because they can’t compete with other sites backed by huge bankrolls. Montreal, QC (PRWEB) June 29, 2005 -- A war is being waged on the Internet for dominance of the online dating ...

An Internet Patrol Exclusive: Interview with Online Dating Site True.com’s CEO Herb Vest (This article has 4 comments)
An exclusive interview with True.com CEO Herb Vest, who is lobbying to make online dating sites required to perform criminal background checks on their members, or state publicly that they do not.

Register All of Your Sex Partners at Shagster.net (This article has 4 comments)
They are calling it the "Sex Degrees of Separation" website. Shagster.net is the Friendster or Linked-In of the intimate relationship. Slept with someone? Register them on Shagster.net. Slept with several, or several dozen someones? Register them all on ...

Should Online Dating Services Perform Criminal Background Checks? (This article has 8 comments)
Herb Vest's online dating service, True.com, tauts itself as being one of the only, if not the only, online dating services which performs criminal background checks on all of its members. But that is not enough for Vest. Oh no. ...

Online Dating Site Halts Fraud Attempts (News Release) (This article has 1 comment)
Thirty-one fraud attempts stopped at Getogethersafe.com. Miami, FL (PRWEB) May 28, 2005 -– To date, 31 attempts to defraud individuals have been halted without incident, at Getogethersafe.com (GTS). The site contributes their success to many hours of direct communication with victims of sexual identity ...

New Online Dating Service for Those Into Fore Play - Date A Golfer! (comments)
Yes, but what Aunty wants to know is would you want to date a guy who was a par 4, and exactly what are they handicapping on this site? Fore! (PRWEB) May 20, 2005 -- DateAGolfer.com Launches World’s Most Comprehensive Internet Dating Service for Golfers Online ...
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